There is a quote about when participating in a competitive bidding process that goes something like "The losers are wondering somethingorother, and the winner is wondering what he calculated wrong". I tried various searches here and on google and couldn't find anything, maybe someone who remembers more of the quote can develop this further? I would have created a stub, but this seems to vague to warrant it yet. -- matt at lackof org 2006/01/23

What about "The winners are planning their future, the losers are wondering about theirs." Found via Google BooksJodi.a.schneider 20:06, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Sometimes It is Said that Man Connot be Trusted With the Government of Himself. Can He Then Be Trusted With the Government of Others?

The Spirit of Resistance to Government is So Valuable on Certain Occasions, That I Wish It to be Always Kept Alive.

When the Government Fears the People, There is Liberty; When the People Fear the Government, There is Tyranny

The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

The general government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves....

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. -- Bill for the More General diffusion of Knowledge (1778).

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. --- In "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. -- To Peter Carr, 1785. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. --- Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. Memorial Edition 16:45, Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security. -- Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808

Those who don't read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. --- Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh

“It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.”

Actual quote by Thomas Paine: "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicines to the dead, or endeavouring to convert an atheist by scripture"

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

(1866)

Note: This quotation is attributed, not to Twain, but to a 19th Century New York Jurist by both Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations[1], and the Yale book of Quotations[2]. However, the cited author wrote that the quotation was a "saying," indicating a probable earlier origin.

"Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny." - Patrick Henry

the people have a right to keep and bear arms. -- Patrick Henry and George Mason, Elliot, Debates at 185.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? -- Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836

The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun. -- Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 386.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone... Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation... inflicted by those who had no power at all? -- Patrick Henry, Elliot p. 3:50-53, in Virginia Ratifying Convention

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. -- Patrick Henry, during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution (1788)

Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? Of what service would militia be to you when, most probably, you will not have a single musket in the state? For, as arms are to be provided by Congress, they may or may not provide them. -- Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot Debates at 48

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. -- Edward Abbey in Abbey's Road, p.39 (Plume, 1979)

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. - Samuel Adams

All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

What Good Fortune It is For Governments That People Do Not Think - Adolf Hitler

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty...of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -- Abraham Lincoln

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. -- General Douglas MacArthur

If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants. - William Penn

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire, 1764

Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms. -- Andrew Ford

On April 18, 1775 John Adams and John Hancock were at the home of Rev. Jonas Clarke, a Lexington pastor and militia leader. That same night Paul Revere arrived to warn them of the approaching Redcoats. The next morning British Major Pitcairn shouted to an assembled regiment of Minutemen; "Disperse, ye villains, lay down your arms in the name of George the Sovereign King of England." The immediate response of Rev. Jonas Clarke or one of his company was: "We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus." The motto of the American Revolution became “No King but King Jesus”

This country belongs to the people and whenever they shall grow weary of their government they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it, or revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln

If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege. -- Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, 560 (1878)

The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call. -- Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 28

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials. -- George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426.

An instance within the memory of some of this house will show us how our militia may be destroyed. Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliment was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that is was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia. -- George Mason at the Virginia Ratification Convention, June 14, 1788

Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it. -- Richard Henry Lee, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms. -- Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788) at 169.

The militia is the natural defense of a free country against foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. The right of citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the U.S., Book III at 746 (1833)

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. -- Representative Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789

The power of the sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it ever will remain, in the hands of the people. -- Tench Coxe in the Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

The quote goes something like "There is a god-sized hole in man's psyche." It's almost always attributed to Sartre, but I can't find anywhere that says where he said it or wrote it, or what the original french was.

A first attempt at an answer: Regarding the attribution of the “God-sized hole” as coming from Sartre. After a non-exhaustive search in both English and French, I found a couple of plausible sources that make the attribution problematic. Here are my quick (and most definitely not authoritative) translations, followed by the original texts pasted from the internet sources.

«Man is defined by consciousness [conscience] (the for-self that is opposed to the in-self). For all consciousness is the consciousness of something (the idea of intentionality, taken up from Husserl). Man is therefore fundamentally open to the world, “incomplete,” “turned towards,” existing [existent] (projected outside the self): there is in him a nothingness, a “hole in the being” susceptible to receiving objects from the world. Consciousness is that which never coincides with oneself, that which is the power of [making]-nothingness [nihilism?] (that is to say negation, that is to say action) thanks to the imagination (which can think that which does not exist). Consciousness makes the project possible.»

«I asked myself every minute what I could be in the eyes of God. At present, I do not know the answer. God does not see me, God does not hear me, God does not know me. You see that emptiness [space, vacuum] above our heads? This is God again. Silence is God. Absence is God. God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone have decided [about] Evil; alone I invented Good. It is I who have cheated, I who have performed miracles, it is I who accuses [condemns] myself today, I alone who can absolve myself; myself, man. If God exists, man is nothingness.» (purportedly from Le diable et le bon Dieu (1951), Act III, p. 228)

Can someone PLEASE find out who came up with this beauty: "To know me is to love me". I am done searching google and wikipedia and now I see that it's not even on WikiQuote! Ò-RFW

-There is, I believe, a country song which includes the lines "To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man/Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, but I'm doing the best that I can" 86.131.35.241 18:52, 19 October 2006 (UTC) PS: I Googled the couplet I just posted, and came up with this: Mac Davis - It's Hard To Be Humble

-Seems good. I always suspected it was by someone like Plato, but, given that there's very little on google, and your reference is a case where the quote was PUBLISHED, I'd say it'll have to do. THANK YOU -RFW

Mac Davis's 1980 song (from the album of the same name) can't be the original use of this phrase. I believe it was already well-established when Phil Spector used a variation as the title and theme of "To Know Him Is to Love Him", a song made popular by The Teddy Bears in 1958. I suspect it's much older than this. We'll have to keep looking. ~ Jeff Q(talk) 21:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

There are two early near-misses by Robert Burns. One is from his "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791):

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.

The other, almost identical, is from "Bonnie Lesley" (1792):

To see her is to love her
And love but her for ever.

But Samuel Rogers got it pretty well exactly in his Jacqueline (1814):

Oh! she was good as she was fair.
None - none on earth above her!
As pure in thought as angels are,
To know her was to love her.

Thank-you very much for that useful research. However, if you are new to the phrase -- 'To know me is to love me' -- its current meaning seems to be "If you don't love me / like me, then you obviously don't know me / understand me" or that is to say "I may not be very likeable on the outside, but if you knew me, you'd like me". Unfortunately, none of your quotations touch on that meaning. Furthermore, there's currently nothing to suggest that the phrase found its origins in those quotations. Wildly interesting though, and I'm so glad you shared them. :) 41.242.90.224 18:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC) RFW

-On the near-misses with "see her", Thomas Ford is an earlier source than Burns, known to Australians thanks to Robert Menzies:

At a function attended by the Queen at Parliament House, Canberra, in 1963, Menzies quoted the Elizabethan poet Thomas Ford, "I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die".

I've recently found out that there are some working on translating wikipedia into Maltese, so it hink it woulb be possible to write a list of both Maltese proverbs and idioms. The Maltese language is rich in proverbs and idioms, and from this aspect it is, in my opinion, one of the nicest languages. Anyway, if some decides to start a page with Maltese proverbs, I'll be glad to help. Keith Azzopardi 14:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Where does this expression come from? What precisely does it mean (got the bill but not the goods, got talked into buying stuff, bought stuff that turned out to be inferior?) Thanks. --Coppertwig 03:57, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I wish I could make a page for this but I can't so can sombody make a Harvest Moon page. Harvest Moon is a video game series. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.251.104.216 (talk • contribs) 00:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

" As we journey down the path we call life, we acquire words of wisdom along the way. These words are generated by our life's ups and downs and serve as a reminder of our failures and triumphs. We must never forget these valuable treasures, for they are the only physical remains of who we are, after we have passed on.." - Dullanni Ezekiel Waterman

"What we do for ouselves dies with us, What we do for others and the world is eternal" Albert Pines

This is a quote from Albert Pike, not Albert Pines, from his book Ex Corde Locutiones: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren P.11. The quote was used in the TV show Criminal Minds and the quote was incorrectly credited to Pines.

Since we don't seem to have concrete information on Wyland himself, I have created a stub theme article, Automation, and added it there. ~ Jeff Q(talk) 23:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank-you. I'm obliged to add a disclaimer here: The email you reference was written by my brother, and we learned about Wylands Law from the same father. :-) If that's O.K., I will invite Mr. Wyland to visit your Automation page and add comments into the 'talk' section. Gawbl 00:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. I hadn't read the page carefully enough. I was thinking Pournelle quoted it, but I see that it was actually quoted by the mail-writer you mention. I'm troubled by the level of indirection here, especially since the source is not a Chaos Manor column, over which Pournelle has editorial authority and responsibility for content, but rather a letter with no provenance for determining factual accuracy. (Not that I'm saying your brother is incorrect; it's a matter of verifiability through reliable sources.) I'm afraid we need to get better sources. Thanks for calling attention to this. Any additional information you can obtain may be useful in helping us track this down. ~ Jeff Q(talk) 00:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I spoke with Mr. Wyland by telephone yesterday; he seemed pleased that his Law might earn him some fame (or, perhaps, notoriety). I sent him some Wikiquote URLs and invited him to comment. In response, he emailed me a document "WYLAWS.DOC" that he claimed was dated 1993; it's about 5K in size, includes the Law of Automation, and some other interesting adages, like the "Law of Time to Market: Good now beats better later." Also: "John Byram's Law of Learning Sequence: You can't come back from where you haven't been." While it's all very amusing, I don't think any of this truly verifies anything. :-( Gawbl 23:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

There's a saying about choosing between the dragon you know and the one you don't know. Sometimes it's a tiger. Does anyone know the source? Is it a Chinese proverb? --217.171.129.72 00:11, 12 April 2008 (UTC)Mango adds Is it the better the devil you know?

Michael Scott: You'll notice, I didn't have anybody being Arab. I thought that would be too explosive, uh, no pun intended. But I just thought, "too soon" for Arabs, maybe next year. You know, the ball's in their court.

Michael Scott: Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and... I have a great one. "Little Kid Lover". That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.

Michael Scott: I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

Oscar: Both my parents were born in Mexico, and they moved to the United States a year before I was born, so I grew up in the United States... my parents were Mexican. Michael Scott: Wow, that is a great story. That's the American dream right there, right? Um, let me ask you, is there a term besides 'Mexican' that you prefer? Something less offensive?

Dwight Schrute: In the wild, there is no health care. In the wild, health care is, "Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run. A lion eats me and I'm dead." Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion, you're dead.

Michael Scott: The most sacred thing I do is care... Today I am in charge of picking a great new healthcare plan. Right? That's what this is all about. Does that make me their doctor? Um, yes. Like a specialist.

Dwight Schrute: Through concentration, I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will. Pam Beesley: Why would you wanna raise your cholesterol? Dwight Schrute: So I can lower it.

If anyone could get a collection of quotes together from John Marsden and his books it would be very much appreciated! Australian Author John Marsden wrote The Tomorrow Series, The Ellie Chronicles, So Much To Tell You, etc.

'Life should be deemed as a series of tests; each separated by a period of reflection and revision for the next. When one makes a wrong judgement, a simple mistake, they may feel as though they have failed either in that respected area of life or failed life completely. However what many do not realise is that life is a series of tests, and you can not dwell on the last test forever as sure enough the next one will arrive. But most importantly, life is a series of tests with unlimited re-sits, each of which you can learn from'- Thomas J. Cairney 20th February 2007

John McAfee (McAfee founder and author of "Into the Heart of Truth, "The Fabric of Self", "Secret of the Yamas", "Beyond the Siddhis") is one of my favorite quotable people. here are my favorites from "Into the Heart of Truth":

History is sympathetic to its authors.

If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.

It’s easy to give advice if you don’t have to pay the consequences.

If the majority holds something of value, you can be certain it has none.

Opinions need a willing ear.

Imagination weakens the eyes.

Popular works are unreadable, great works are unread.

A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

Trivialities have become our necessities.

I prefer people with simple vices, and harmless virtues.

There’s no time for a person’s real life.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions.

Everyone hopes for old age. No-one wants to be old.

Hope is paltry food for living.

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

Pure and simple truths are uncommon.

An intelligent man who doesn’t think has no advantage over a fool.

If you think money is valueless, ask someone for a loan.

Righteous motives will lead to a stupid act.

Appearances overcome substance.

The world was here first. It doesn’t owe you a thing.

Great lies are often true

History is full of extraordinary events, some of which may actually have happened.

We admire ourselves in proportion to our disdain of others.

Fear is a certain shield against temptation.

If you want to infuriate someone, forgive them.

Self portraits are the only portraits painted with passion.

He is too old to know everything.

Self deception is a hypnotic pleasure.

Selfishness isn’t doing what you want, but demanding that others do what you want.

Temptation is irresistible.

-- This last one is actually a corruption of Oscar Wilde's "I can resist everything but temptation."

In light of the recent events in our country's growing conversation of racial-related issues involving the dismissal of Don Imus, I would like to request that a "Roots" page be created. Maybe this will assist in the need for proper discourse about this subject.

Maxwell has written over forty books (mostly on leadership), including The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (with Zig Ziglar) and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow, among others. His books have sold over seven million copies, with several on the New York Times Best Seller's List and translations in over fifty languages.[1]

"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."

"Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple."

"Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today."

"If you're lying, you're lying."

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. "

"Leadership is influence."

"Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best."

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."

"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do."

"Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up."

"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. "

"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it."

"We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice."

"These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator." - George Q. Cannon

Anyone? Im planning on replaying most of these again soon so ill find some soon.

"Medals don't help me sleep at night."

"When you get close, close enough to read the label on his uniform, close enough to smell his aftershave, then every step he takes is one you have allowed him to take, every decision he makes is one you have allowed him to make."

Interrogations: "Pick a number between 1 and 10." - Fisher "Oh...god..um..one, wait no.. 3!" - Interrogatee "Damn, lucky guess. You get to live. Now tell me something useful or we play another round." - Fisher

ADAM: This is mankind's first sin. Man created swords to kill and was in turn, killed by swords. Don't you see? Mankind has always sought ways to achieve death.Dr Stiles: (Reply 1) That's not true! We created many other things in order to live!Naomi: (Reply 2) Even still, the swords we used could also achieve great justice.

Dr Stiles: No disease is incurable! I'll never accept that!

Dr Stiles: Angie?Angie: Yes doctor?Dr Stiles: Everything you said before was true...Angie: ...Dr Stiles: But I'm going to keep working and make you proud.Angie: If that's the case... don't come to work late, don't leave without doing your paperwork, and...Dr Stiles: ...Huh?Angie: Please fix your hair before coming to the hospital. Sometimes it's embarassing to work besides you.Dr Stiles: Heh... I'll be careful. *Yawn* Ok, I'm taking a nap. Wake me if anything happens.Angie: I understand. Have a good rest... Dr Stiles.

Help - does anyone know who said : 'If you can't measure, you can't manage?' sue@quatford.com 11 january 2008 30.3.2008 Please if anyone find answer to email me on a_malallah@hotmail.com

Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973) "Without productivity objectives, a business does not have direction. Without productivity measurements, it does not have control." There are several plays on this through out the book.--Oracleofottawa 01:52, 16 November 2009 (UTC)It is a small book malallah only 839 pages. It took me less then five minutes to remember the earliest variation. But perhaps YOU should start NOW.... (LOL)

From Wikipedia:Juma Ikangaa (born July 19, 1957) is a world-class marathon runner from Tanzania, a sentimental favorite in Boston after finishing second three years in a row at the Boston Marathon from 1988-1990. A great trainer, Ikangaa said "The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."

Something is not quite right here. There are at least two books that were published before the birth date given for Ikangaa above that include the essential sentiment expressed in the quote, according to Google Book Search:

The will to win. We hear a lot about that. The will and the wish to win, but there isn't a chance for either one of them to be gratified or to have any value unless there has been a will to prepare to win…

Either Ikangaa was born much earlier or someone said this before he was credited with saying it. Unfortunately, the limited GBS views for these books doesn't show the complete quote and quotee, so more work is needed to lock this quote down. If the eventually confirmed quotee doesn't already have an article and doesn't seem to merit one just for this quote, we should probably put it into Winnning or Victory. By the way, I've also raised this issue at w:Talk:Juma Ikangaa#Will to prepare. ~ Jeff Q(talk) 08:16, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

i am searching and searching for a quote i saw on "king" last night on the history channel, Martin Luther King Jr said something along the lines of ... i will not decide what is right from the majority...... can you find this for me? it was in a video form and not a speech, i think he just said it to a reporter! please email me at livinlovinmaid@msn.com..... i will not check back on this page so please please please email me subject MARTIN LUTHER KING thank you thank you!!!!

Who is Bill Wiseman? Anyone has a link to what makes him notable? ~ MosheZadka(Talk) 2 July 2005 07:07 (UTC)

I *believe* that Bill Wiseman is simply a psudonym. Bill being a rather common name, "wise" and "man" being put togeather to make it seem like an actual name. I may be wrong.

Not so a psudonym. The saying was an apothegm uttered by Bill Wiseman, a Vice President of United Artists Broadcasting, during a meeting in New York City regarding the new television station in Cleveland Ohio, Channel 43.

I can not find support for the Wiseman quote. I did find the following:

"If inconsistency is a mark of a great mind then this Nation must have the brainiest people that ever lived; for the only thing I find consistent is inconsistency".

This is from a 1966 hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, (page 5528 of the transcript), but the author is not discernible from the Google Books snippet. BD2412T 03:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

We can do better than one Clue quote on here, can we not? And if anybody might suggest that they're on the pages relating to the people who contributed them, no they're not: these people don't have wikiquote pages.

Was a bit surprised to find no wikiquote page on this great eighties drama series about the Vietnam war. Unfortunately I can't start an article as I don't actually have it. -- MiG 12:44, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

well i made a Demetri Martin page...took hours compiling quotes from interviews and comedy scetches...but now i cant find it! i dont know where else to let anyone know this...but if anyone else wants to take the time to make a Demetri Martin page...even if they just start one and id be happy to add all the information needed...i just dont know how mine could have disappeared like that! -mfilanc June 11 2008

I can't find this idiom in wikiquote and I wouuld like to find out the history behind it.

The Bible, Book of Job chapter 19, verse 20: "I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth. It literally means you have barely escaped a situation, with the modern by. — CAWylie (talk) 14:20, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

The gods are four whose works grow cold. As one betrays their laws of old. Then dark grow deeds and darker hearts. For lost to all are holy arts. A vagrant comes amidst the gloom. To seal the gaping maw of doom.

Charnel:Kill the blasphemer !

Persephone:Charnel ! Death is not the answer to everything.

Charnel:Yes torture also has its merits.

Charnel:Such promises... Knowledge, justice, progress. What value hold these without conflict ? What is a life devoid of strife ?

There's a billion Prince's but you're lacking THE Prince. The love symbol, the artist formerly known as prince. Whatever you call him. D:

"When one finds himself, one finds God. You find God, and you find yourself."

"I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master."

"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

"...and not be judged by the color of my skin, but the quality of my work."

"Paisley Park is an alternative. I'm not saying it's greater.. or better. It's just something else."

"By the time Im ready to get married there wont be marriage, probably in the year 2066." Right On! magazine interview 1979

"My Dad is black and Italian. My mom is a mixture of a bunch of things.I dont consider myself part of any race.Im just a human being I suppose." (Los Angeles Times 1980)

"if i were to write a letter to a friend, and tell them about an experience, i wouldn't say how it made me feel; i would say exactly what i did, so that they could experience it, too, rather than the intellectual point of view. if you give them a situation, maybe that you've encountered, or whatever, give them the basis of it, let them take it to the next stage, they make the picture in their own mind."

Namaste is the Divine in me, honors the Divine in you- and in our Divination- we are One. So, my Journey is to exist in this place of oneness-learn to love without condition and coExist.

Kindred Inclination of Namastic Development KIND see www.GlobalKind.org -

"Its all about feeling music, loving yourself, and expressing love to those around you- its about being the bigger person, and getting up quickly each time we fall, its about feeling beautiful when we are vulnerable, its about acknowledging fear so that we may become fearless, its about honoring each other, its about laughter and knowledge, its about an open mind and an open heart and trusting yourself enough to know who to give this beautiful gift of self to, its about me and its about you, for we are in our truest selves "ONE" ~ (collective conscious)" jmg

Passenger ships landed here long ago from many different galaxies; inhabiting the Earth. You can tell among the species who differ. The truth has been lost over time; dare to look into the sphere and remember...jmg

~PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PEACE~ by Dr. Jerry Jampolsky 1. Forgive your parents totally. 2. Forgive everyone who has ever been here, who is here now, including you. 3. Forgive the world. 4. Forgive God. 5. Take a leap of faith by trusting in a Higher Power. 6. Choose peace over conflict. 7. Choose love over fear. 8. Choose to be a love finder rather than a fault finder. 9. Choose to give love rather than seek love. 10. Teach only love. 11. Be a ‘Teacher of Peace’. 12. Cherish your soul.

The Christian persecution of the archaic religion based on the sacramental ingestion of entheogenic plants and the consequent personal access to ecstatic states; whose great victory was the destruction of the Eleusinian Mysteries at the end of the 4th century, which then reached a gruesome climax in the persecution of witches in the middle ages, and which continues in today's Pharmacratic state in the guise of a public health "war on drugs" - Pharmacratic Inquisition '

I once heard or read a passage. It related to either absurdity or existentialism Basically it went something like We didn't ask to come into existence. We were just thrown into this body and world (?) And now we're responsible (?) I'd like to speak with the manager. any idea on where i can find the whole thing or who it's by would be greatly appreciated

I can't believe you people don't have anything about Stereo Skyline! You people should be ashamed! Stereo Skyline is like the BEST band EVERR! Gah! You people discust me! >:(

Marianne Walker: Am I your first official patient? Martin: Indeed you are yes. Collect a thousand loyalty points and you get a free coffin.

Doc: Bodmin thats some sort of indeering local term for barmy right? Bert: Well someone who's Bodmin is, well its kind of like, well the thing is, ok now what happens is... Doc: Treat yourself to a noun

Martin: Look I'm not interested in your oppinion as to whether I seem a bit bodmin, or a bit lonely, or how far it is to Dehlobole. It's just a dog

Series 1, Episode 2: Gentlemen prefer Louisa: Being Doctor here is more than just handing out pills. Martin: Yes its handing out buscuits as well#

Louisa: You'd think when you have exactly one patient you'd want to go and visit him in the hospital Roger: (very hoarse and struggling to speak) He did come and see me Louisa: Right, well. You could of told me Martin: I tried but that woman shushed me

Series 1, Episode 3: Sh*t Happens Joan: Look, Marty, you do realise that the villagers are dusting off their pitchforks, don't you? Martin: Yes. Exactly how many generations ago did the inbreeding start with these people?

Series 1, Episode 6: Haemaphoebia Doc: What do you want Adrian? Adrian: I want you to put in a word for me with Chris Parsons. You see, Faulkner is about to move on. Doc: And you're ready to step up? Adrian: Yes, but I'm getting some resistance from Chris Parsons. Since you two are mates I wondered if you might give him a call. Doc: I've spoken to Chris. He rang me. He thinks you're an arse. I think you're an arse too. Enjoy your weekend. [Adrian storms out] Doc: Arse.

"Don't take your friends for granted, they could be the most important treasure in your life."

Final Words...Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen." (2 Tim 4:21-22)WHEN WERE THESE WORDS WRITTEN?These are the final words of the apostle Paul, written shortly before he was beheaded in Rome.

I wonder what happened to the page of Max Hardcore quotes? It was here, before it was recently deleted. It's a shame, since he's my favorite film director. I tried to create a new page for him, but it was deleted again. It's especially sad because the Max Hardcore Wikipedia page has a link to Max Hardcore Wikiquote page, which simply doesn't exist. Hopefully, somebody can fix it! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 95.52.78.126 (talk)

The article was deleted, twice, because it had no sourced quotes. ~ Ningauble 18:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

"Will you tell General Hancock that General Armistead sends his regrets? Will you tell him how very sorry I am?" "I will tell him, sir. I will tell him." - Gen. Lewis Armistead and Lt. Thomas Chamberlain.

Robert D Dangoor is the author of the Way It Is (1997). A collection of over 350 original and pithy sayings and aphorisms that delve deep into the subconscious. Although they are deep, they are also great fun. Ten of these sayings have been produced on sugar sachets and distributed all over Britain.

The Oscar Wilde Society stated, “Robert Dangoor, like Oscar Wilde, has an uncanny understanding of life and a very skilled way of writing about it”. To view ‘The Way It Is’ go to www.1liners.com

Lifelines, Robert Dangoor’s second book (2003) is a wonderful miscellany of wisdom, humour and truth in the form of letters articles and illustrations that reflect Robert Dangoor’s philophsy. Pendulum thinks that “Robert Dangoor is a proper wordsmith of our time… spot-on observational humour”. To view ‘Lifelines’ to go to www.1liners.com

Reasons To Be is Robert Dangoor’s third book (2004) is compilation of whimsical and topical letters that are both humorous and intuitive. “Stimulating and amusing”. Professor Anthony W. Clare, M.D. To view ‘Reasons To Be’ go to www.1liners.com

Robert Dangoor is also the writer of a number of articles including ‘I’m not mad, doctor, it’s the rest of the world’ and ‘One cannot go into a shop more than once or twice in a short space of time’. To view Robert Dangoor’s articles go to www.1liners.com

"A file does not exist until it exists in two places" - Unknown I have often heard and used this statement. I would like to know to whom it may be attributed. This statement helps people understand that important documents must have a backup copy. The minimum safe distance between a source and its backup is inversely proportionally to the importance of the information.

When you are born you cry and the world rejoices but live your life such that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

I like it. I found this version from 1878: We came across a funny little French proverb in our class the other day. It was something like this: “When you were born, you cried, and your friends rejoiced. So live that, when you die, your friends will cry and you rejoice.” —KHirsch 22:17, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Kabir in one of the sources: Kabeera jab hum paida hue, Jag hanse hum roye, Aisi karani kar chalo, Hum hansen jag roye. Translation: - The poet Kabeer is saying that when we born we were crying and whole world was laughing. Do something like this, that [at death] we laugh and the world weep. quoted from nirmalbhajan.comN6n 03:37, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

our existence is limited in its dimension, our universe has infinte dimensions like eternity it is never ending,why do we seek what we cannot change for the better when there are so many things we can change. (gus)

I am nature soft in song but been sheltered from the breeze, where my flowers would have flown my abode has turned to stone, somehow its been led astray trees and flowers to decay by what has been replaced, my children lay in waste beneath a toxic stone (gus)

I'm sure there are many wothwhile quotes that could be added about what was the last Feudal state in the World. I think the quote from Dame Sibyl Hathaway who said that "...if feudalism was good enough for William the Conquerer, it's good enough for us" The C of E 21:11, 15 December 2009 (UTC) David Ricardo

Who wrote, " When a couple gets married, the groom's family gains a daughter and the bride's family gains a son. Their new son-in-law is a son in God's eyes.Their new daughter-in-law is a daughter in God's eyes."?

I would appreciate any help. I am having a little in-law trouble !!! I have been looking everywhere for this quote in several theological books. My father-in-law is extremely religious (Southern Baptist in Mississippi).If you understand his Christian perfections you know how I feel. Thank You for all of your help - Open Minded in the Deep South!!! Dawn Copley-Lindsey

The book of Mark (New Testament), talk about "certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young man laid hold on him: and he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked"(Mr.14.51-52).

Hours before, the Last Supper was celebrated with one of the disciples leaning on Jesus bosom "whom Jesus loved" (Jn.13.23).

In Da Vinci's The Last Supper,"the figure to the left of Christ, also wearing blue and red, is ussually identified as John the Apostle,...who is identified to be the disciple whom Jesus loved seated next to Jesus and who was customarily depicted...as a beardless, often "effeminate" youth with very long hair...Some speculetors, have entertained the idea that John was depected in this way to hint that he was Mary Magda- lene...".

In the book of John, Jesus "saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom Jesus loved" and said "unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!. Then saith he to the disciple, behold thy mother!"(Jn.19.26-27).Three mysteries apparently not related! But what if Jesus delivered himself in the garden of Gethsemanee in exchange for the beloved disciple (with the help of Judas who's task would be to lead the herodian guards along with the pharisees, the kidnappers of John? That would explain the presence of this strange character in this not untipically, not unusual "scenario". It could also explain why Jesus was the only "arrested one" at that time as "nego- tiated"! (given the assumption). It could also explain the possible absence of the "beloved disciple" from the Last Supper being substituted by Mary Magdalene.

Finally, it could give us a hint of Jesus motive for his final words adressed to "his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved"(Jn.19.26) when he said unto them: "Woman, behold thy (recovered) son!... and son, "Behold thy mother"

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!"

No matter where I look, I see it attributed to 'Bill McKenna in Cycle Magazine, February 1982.' Sounds legit, but there are no other mentions of a Bill McKenna anywhere else on the internets. Seems dubious, but would love to know for sure.

Thanks.

"Joy is in the spirit world, while being happy, is the natural world." John I. Hallett

2011 Feb 19

I obtained the Cycle magazine issue of Feb. 1982 in order to verify this. This quote does not appear in the issue. This is a false attribution that is floating around the web and people keep repeating it. I have not been able to find any verifiable source for the quote and would be interested if anyone could find it! jytdog at gmail.com

2013 Feb 27

I searched Hunter S. Thompson's *Hell's Angels* (another source often cited) on books.google.com and could not find it there either! Jack Lohr, White Plains, NY

requestes for right now i need to know how to get sourced quotes any help? thank you.[edit]

I would like to request that the quote "Live simply that others might simply live" be added with attibution. I seem to find that it is attributed to St. Elizabeth Seton. However, a very similar quote is attributed to Mohandas Ghandi. Does someone know the history of this?

The earliest reference I can find on Google Books is a pair of 1977 examples, one attributed to Seton, the other unattributed but written by Leslie Glenn. BD2412T 21:05, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

One of those references reads "This is a recent rendition of Elizabeth Seton's statement 'Live simply that others may simply live.' It is referring to this quote:

I hypothesize that Birch's quote is actually the original and that the attributions of similar quotes to Seton and Gandhi are mistaken. I'm on the road right now, with limited internet access, so I haven't been able to thoroughly check this out, but I haven't found any similar quotes before Birch's, with the possible exception of this, which is apparently an undated pamphlet "circa 1974", but I bet it's actually from 1976 or later. --KHirsch 23:15, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Eugene Marais: No man can ever attain to anywhere near a true conception of the subconscious in man who does not know the primates under natural conditions." from The Soul of the White Ant

I have seen a quote by him misattributed to Steve Carell and others many times across the web. It's ridiculous that there's no page for him on here, all there is is The Ricky Gervais Show and its related pages, which doesn't list his personal quotes, just what he, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington said together on the show. I honestly believe that the lack of a personal page for Ricky Gervais is causing this quote to be misattributed way more than it would be if this were fixed.

This is where I usually go to verify quotes and the quote wasn't here because the place to enter it doesn't exist. That sucks. Ricky Gervais probably says a bunch of funny and insightful stuff on his own, when he's not on the show. Because there is no Ricky Gervais page, none of that stuff is on this site. How does he not have his own page?

Anyway, here's the quote:

“Steve Carell has quoted Ricky Gervais as saying, ‘If you don’t know a Michael Scott, then you are a Michael Scott,’ ”
-quote from this New York Magazine article

It's a pretty good quote, and it's a shame that this is the only place it's printed on Wikiquote.

I would Be bold and put it up myself, but I want to avoid stepping on anyone's toes. I haven't kept track of the procedures and history around here enough to do more than put this request up. If no one responds to me in a few weeks I'll consider that my go-ahead and I'll do it myself.

w:John Gunther, a famous US author in the 20th Century, has no article here yet. I have no copy of his English book, so no much help. If you find him interesting, like me, please help it out. Cheers, --Aphaia 06:59, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

"You can't paint a person in the corner and be shocked when they walk on the wet paint!"

"What extraordinary talents will you bring to today? Surely you didn't wake up hoping for an ordinary day?"

"What you spend your day on is what you do for a living...you sleep all day you are a sleeper; if you work all day you're a worker; if you have vision for the future, then you are a visionary...the choice is yours."

"I can't help everyone, but I won't give up on anyone!"

"We have to learn to fight for our lives, our communities lives, and the future lives that consider us a foundation."

"The problem with not living up to your potential is that there is no reward for being a reclusive genius! Show the world your gifts...and the world will reward you."

"When you stop taking feedback you fail to receive the fuel that makes you tick.

Neither the Bible, the Torah nor the Koran mentions Christmas trees. Yet some secular zealots try to ban Christmas trees on government property, based on the doctrine of "separation of church and state"-- a doctrine found nowhere in the Constitution. Reflections on the Passing Scene 12/21/2010

i am not very good in english and i am not aware of wikiquote 's mechanism . the quotes are very good but sometimes when they are poems like today i cant grasp the meaning so it would be nice if quotes that are poems had some explanation . especially for people like me (who are not english) .

"It wasn't that I didn't want to drink anymore, it is just that I didn't want to get sober. There I sat; in between black and white and hoping to not die in the process. A.A. bothered me and I was told that it was the only solution that remained. But it was not just the general idea of A.A. that was the issue at hand, it was the whole idea of joining something that had a cult like influence on the world. Nothing is more frightening than people who group think. People who do this start wars in the name of God, build compounds in Idaho, and wait for spaceships to land." Chapter One "The Circus" from .512, Author Joshua A. Robbins.

While searching around for articles I've noticed a dearth of pages for NASCAR drivers. While I am commited to changing that, anyone's help on this would be greatly appreciated. Ring of Fire 06:31, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

first really its kind of feeling that i contributing something, may be only by writing request really i feel so excited to be like a "cos·mo·pol·i·tan(s)".... now to the point is i want there should be a section which solves our problem specifically related to computer problem which we often experienced while computing so we don't bother much about it.Under the Heading i.e."Home-PC ProblemSolution" it could be so useful for those people who have limited resources in terms of money and time. ````

Knowledge without thought is simply plagiarism. No one person can claim wisdom without the cognitive process of discovery for oneself. To simply read and book or an article and regurgitate its' contents back at a later date is neither wisdom nor intelligence but merely the sign of a good memory. Challenge that which is presented as empirical. To limit ones education to that which is presented only by anothers experience does nothing for the advancement of true and pure knowledge.

Denzel Washington was quoted as saying the following in a Reader's Digest article on him: "I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it".

I don't know that this quote is original to Denzel Washington. Certainly the sentiment is not. BD2412T 02:18, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

From Bruce Whitney, "The Meaning of Opportunity" in The Spectator, (October 2, 1906), p. 9: "Opportunity comes only to those who are prepared to embrace it; or, putting it more correctly, no unprepared person can seize an opportunity when it presents itself, and consequently imagines it never comes". BD2412T 03:21, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

I believe I read many years ago, in a law course I was studying: that Solon about 500BC said, words to the (old memory) effect of "The Law is like a spider's web, catch small flies, as big ones break them before your eyes.

Another said, the law is a ass.

You may have and authority memory jogged by my request, as I couldn't find it by search under Solon or the law etc. Or someone may wish to create an article to include the many historic quotes about law, laws and enforcement of them.--171.237.89.229 01:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

I went back to Wikipedia and searching found this quote in part attributed to Anacharsis as stating from a Solon idea? However I do think my memory from Uni has better quoted the translation, as above. "Having been informed that Solon was employed to draw up a code of laws for the Athenians, Anacharsis described his occupation, saying:

"Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones."[11"--171.237.89.229 01:54, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikisource says:- Solon was the first to call the 30th day of the month the Old-and-New day, and to institute meetings of the nine archons for private conference, as stated by Apollodorus in the second book of his work On Legislators. When civil strife began, he did not take sides with those in the city, nor with the plain, nor yet with-the coast section.

One of his sayings is: Speech is the mirror of action; and another that the strongest and most capable is king. He compared laws to spiders' webs, which stand firm when any light and yielding object falls upon them, while a larger thing breaks through them and makes off. Secrecy he called the seal of speech, and occasion the seal of secrecy.

"compared laws to spiders' webs, which stand firm when any light and yielding object falls upon them, while a larger thing breaks through them and makes off."--171.237.89.229 02:01, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

"(Kaine to a hypnotized Weiss)Weiss, you dumbass! Start making sense you rotten book, or you're gonna be sorry! Maybe I'll rip your pages out one-by-one, or maybe I'll put you in the Goddamn furnace! How can someone with such a big, smart brain get hypnotized like a little bitch huh?! Oh, Shadowlord! I love you Shadowlord! Come over here and give Weiss a big sloppy kiss, Shadowlord! Now pull your head out of your Goddamn ass and START FUCKING HELPING US!"

Who wrote: "Dear sir, I am seated in the smallest room of my house. I have your letter before me. Soon it will be behind me." Was it Voltaire? Max Reger?

In 1786 William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland wrote a letter to his friend John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich telling him that he was withdrawing his political support from Sandwich and going over to the other side. Sandwich wrote in reply, "Sir, your letter is before me, and it will presently be behind me. I remain, sir, your most humble servant." Source: Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall Historical Memoirs of My Own Time (1815; repr, London: Bickers, 1884) vol. 1, p. 399. — CAWylie (talk) 14:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

However much we may profess to despise the English, we are all flattered to be mistaken for one! Is this quotation right?

source for: "Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel"[edit]

"Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel" has been attributed to Mark Twain, but also to a politician in 1964.

The earliest usage I could find in print was:

My friend Reg Murphy, now publisher of the Baltimore Sun, has a sign behind his desk advising those who would take on the press that it is never wise to do battle with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.

An excerpt from its introduction (full paragraphs 1, 2, and 5 on page xix):

"There is a saying dear to lawyers that justice cannot be founded on lies, and I think the same is true with human association and mutual trust and understanding. A marriage of persons who fear and distrust each other cannot long survive, nor can one where the partners hold false ideas about each other.

The same is true between races in any country. There can be no real understanding between them so long as neither has a clear picture of the other: what it really thinks, believes in, hopes for, and why. You cannot found friendship on faulty guesswork because guessing breeds suspicion, hate, and bloodshed. And there is much that is guesswork between Black and White. Many of the so-called problems facing today can be traced back to foolish acts on the part of one or other of the two races in the past: acts that were the result of lack of understanding. Only by being presented with a full, clear and unvarnished picture of the African - seen from his worst as well as his best side - can the White man hope to avoid repeating the incredible mistakes he made in the past, blunders that have cost Africa a lot of suffering and close to three million human lives in the short space of ten years.

…

So great is the lack of understanding between Black and White in Africa that there are White men who refuse to accept the fact that a Black man is a human being like the Indian, the Coloured, the Chinese and the European himself. They would rather die than accept the fact that there are Black artists, sculptors, builders, teachers and the like. These people believe nothing else about Africans but that they are lazy, stupid, stubborn creatures, something between an ape and a human being. In my travels through South Africa and beyond, I have met hundreds of such White men and women."

I hope I'm not in trouble… Aung San Suu Kyi's Freedon from Fear had me get started as an influencing factor. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 13:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

<ref>Conquer yourself</ref>“You should not worry when others don’t understand you, instead when,you don’t understand yourself”, once correctly remarked by a great personality. When we try to define ‘SELF’ along with the values that we uphold, we usually come across a related term success. Conquering oneself is like crossing one’s escape velocity after which all the efforts turn into perfection. For a person to be successful, analytical mind, observing nature, patience sustenance and out of box thinking are essential traits. Altogether, these qualities creates a magic wand…One have to recognise innate talent and capabilities for setting up personal goals, to be followed by determination and preservation. It can be achieved through self introspection and monitoring. One can observe oneself and record thoughts occupying predominantly during wakeful hours which in turn influence one’s actions subconsciously. It will develop great confidence and conviction in decisions as one move ahead. That’s all what is required for an accomplished living. The thing that is even worse than quitting or failing is being complacent and underestimation of one’s abilities. “I can’t do it”, these are the worlds four most dangerous words which have to be replaced by “I will do it”. These four incanted words are not a thought process but a strong belief that can lead to development of successful personality which in turn can develop attitude. We must hold on long enough to make our dreams come true because often times the path to success is a long road and for that it is important to stick to what is true and flick a toggle switch of our courage, efforts and talent. We need to wake up, know our limits and talent. After retrospection about these features, one should set an achievable aim for oneself and think beyond unimpeachable. It’s not necessary to hit the bull’s eye, but it is mandatory to go for it if we need unmitigated success. We must quash all the shortcuts and past failure to reach an unprecedented and unrelenting aim. Success starts when one starts finding oneself, so always try to polish and chisel till one get it perfect.

After knowing oneself even if one fail, their efforts are revitalised and quantised like a bowman pulling out arrow from his quiver that is revived after being suppressed once. Instead of thinking about the times of failure, one should think of finding new ways to achieve one’s aim where every effort must be biddably coupled after every step of failure. We should think of every positive experience and outcome of life and see how they add up. Trust in one’s capabilities and calibre can help to entrench one’s effort more enthusiastically and self sufficiently.

Keeping all these things in mind, never allow your confidence to go beyond limits, because after that it will converge into a devil called “overconfidence” that will degrade one’s calibre and lengthen the path to success. So after having faith and belief in oneself, one can expect others to believe in them. After every step towards achievement of goal, will make us more happier than ever before.

I will Prove to you That Allah send me to Free you my people. On December 18th 1925 Prophet Drew Ali Stated that God will Turn the Heavens into A Star and Crescent to prove to the World that you are my Messenger. The Chicago Daily Tribune Saturday December 19th 1925 the paper said "CRESCENT & STAR THE SYMBOL OF ISLAM HUNG LOW IN THE WESTERN SKY LAST NIGHT AT SUNSET" THE Moon and the Planet Venus were in conjunction, with Venus following the horns of the Crescent. G7 Bey

During the journey of life, walking through the pathway of time, days come and pass by. Things will happen and even the biggest of them will get to sit down and give way to life, for it is to proceed. Leveling all hurdles, life continues to advance, till the moment which is discerned. Eventually all settles down, and there you are, starting another journey of another life. (Ali Asif) <ref>Originally my personal Quote</ref>

There's a quote I read many many years ago, and I cannot for the life of me remember it. All that comes to mind is, "....over the bleached bones of your rivals..." At least I'm fairly sure it went something like that. Does anyone know which quote I'm talking about, and knows the entire thing? It's pretty long, I'm sorry I don't have more info to go off of. Any info is greatly appreciated.

"I believe one of life's greatest assess is having the ability to improve self. With God on the throne (not you) nothing is impossible. We can reach heights and depths never imagine. Dream big and always look for ways to improve YOU." - YRBias

"...evolution is an infinitely variable development of learning and cognition as well as of the acquisition of true love, knowledge and wisdom. And this process is granted to all coarse-matter life forms, as well as to all the domains of the spirit forms in their pure spirit-energy levels." Billy, Contact Report 228, May 1989

And the keystone of my thoughts is that the whole splendor of the world and the universe creates infinitely much joy, happiness and harmony within me in such a way that I linger in highest respect for the tremendous Creational display of splendor and love in reverential, silent devotion. Billy, Silent Devotion, 23rd January, 2005

True love, namely, surpasses all love which is thought-feeling generated, which, as a rule, only exhausts itself in degenerated emotions. Billy, A Little Bit of Knowledge, Sense, and Wisdom

What is so bad about becoming old then? Aging is not important, but rather how and what the human lives, what he makes out of his life, what good and positive as well as humane things he does and what he does in regard to being a human, how high he develops his consciousness, how positive and good he is, how he associates with the fauna and flora and how he treats, values, reveres and loves his fellow human. Therefore, what matters to the human is, in fact, not so much how long he walks the earth because what counts is all that which he achieves and accomplishes during his existence. Billy, Aging

It would be awesome if someone with the inclination would add all those pompous quotes from the television Spartacus. Personally I think it is much too tedious to do, but it seems that others enjoy adding dialogue from television shows and movies. --Spannerjam (talk) 16:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup (or was it ketchup?) from some popular mass market fiction within the past 20 years....can't remember what. anyone else recall who or where?

It is a humorous variation of "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger", from Book I of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The earliest usage I could find in print is in Jim Denney, Battle Before Time (2002), page 134. BD2412T 19:52, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

of the Slavs separately, further findings in the fields of
Anthropology, Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics,
Cultures/Traditions, History of Slavic nations, Historic Botany,
Laboratory examinations of evidence such as artifacts should be
taken into consideration."

History And Archaeology Through Laboratory Examinations - Author
Tome Egumenoski, published 2012, in Republic of Macedonia.

There are no important people, only important job/things to do. Geoffrey Forrest

There is no opinion, but position. Geoffrey Forrest

If I had a soul, I would know it. Geoffrey Forrest

None of these sayings appear to be original, nor are they quoted by third parties (GoogleBooks gives me 0 results for each of them). This tells me "Geoffrey Forrest" is not (yet) Wikiquote material. ~ DanielTom (talk) 12:48, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Supposedly claimed for Charles Addams as a description of or dialogue for Morticia Addams relating to the Addams Family comic strip. The quote is "Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." Please do tell me if there's anything to that. Blessings!! DeistCosmos (talk) 22:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Everybody wants to live forever but nobody wants to become old. -Unknown

Everybody wants to go to the heaven but nobody wants to die. -Unknown

If opportunity doesn't knock,build a door. -Melton Berle

Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man[edit]

Does anyone know for sure the origins of this, its associated with the Jesuits, but can it be attributed to a single original author? Here on wikiquotes its marked as a disputed quote of Ignatius of Loyola, at Wikipedia Up Series its attributed to Francis Xavier. Out on the wider web its attributed to Aristotle, any thought on this? Thanks.--KTo288 (talk) 12:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)